Prince George County Public School Headquarters in Upper Marlboro. Daniel E. Photo by Gens.
The following comment is signed by dozens of parents of students from Prince George County Public Schools, whose names appear below.
For decades, the county taxpayers of Prince George have preferred children by separating the revenue of state and county to Prince George County Public Schools, including heavy support for a casino revenue lockbox for education.
Now, two last-minute bills , HB 396 and HB 398 , Prince will ignore the desire of the Georgian people and redirect other revenue currently for education, which will increase more than $ 60 million in significant funding for PGCP. Instead of unlocking our students’ capacity, politicians want to unlock the money they need to succeed.
PGCPS students received a brief recurrence when the delegation of Prince George County House held both bills at the 9 February meeting. In earlier days, we spoke with the increasing number of MLAs who shared our concern and expressed their opposition. And more fellow parents become aware of these bills, they become equally angry. We urge the delegation to make this grip permanent, rip both bills, and make the crisis worse for a decades.
This mentality of kicking hard options under the road , And it is expected to take from PGCPS that no one will notice , Is not new. Its Absolutely How we joined our current weak dirt in the first place emergency school construction and lack of resources. Both bills are filled with misleading smoke and mirror language, but their effect is clear: politicians want to take our already from less schools and balance the budget on our children’s backs.
County Executive Angela Alsobox and others should be better aware. It was Alsobrox in 2018, who has widely respected education leader to serve as the chairman of education. Named Alvin Thornton. Twenty years before the Blooprint for the future of Maryland, Thornton laid the foundation by leading a groundbreaking statewide commission on equitable school funding. The Thorndon Commission was progressing until the great recession of 2007-2009, when politicians made a massive cut, which has ever affected us. We cannot reverse the same mistake and re -progress.
Dr. In the appointment of Thornton, Alsobrox said, “At a time when we are getting ready to go to Annapolis to search for the necessary money, we need to support a school system that educates the students who face many challenges outside the classroom, their expertise will help to ensure that we get every dollar that our children are entitled to.”
Those words are true today, because the current parents see the daily effects of underfunding. Some examples: schools are being forced to select a resource teacher for mathematics to hire or read. Limited money for special education teacher colleagues. Dilated buildings with mold, asbestos and sewage in classes due to maintenance and construction backlogs of $ 8.5 billion.
We highly appreciate that Annapolis has invested in PGCP, which includes a lot of school construction and important funds for the implementation of blueprint for the future of Maryland. Blown is meeting his promise to equally fund a world-class education system with universal all-day prick for 4-year-old children, college and career’s readiness standards, expanding career technical education programs and funds to pay our teachers’ professional salary. Each new blueprint means new expenses for dollars They Program. It does not create a piggibank to relieve local politicians their own The responsibility of fully funded other expenses in our schools.
We accept both Rajkumar George County and the state, but there are statements of budget priorities , And investing properly in education is non-oblique. “Fully funded” may no longer mean matching the inadequate budget of previous years. It should mean At the end Giving those resources to our students and schools need to be successful.
This investment in our students is worth it. PGCPS is making some most important progress in Maryland. From academic achievement to climate change action, PGCPS is an education leader who is progressing all this Despite this The underfund is being done in a chronological. Imagine what we can do with the proper resources of our students.
We stand with Prince George County Education Board and thank them for working together for their children on the issue. We invite other parents to join us and say unevenly: no deduction in education.
And we strongly urge the county executive Alsobrox and state MLAs to pull these badly flawed bills, start, and work to identify other sources of revenue. Our schools have already reduced, and balanced the budget on our children’s back is a non-starter.
Delores Millhouse, Vice President, Catering Middle School PTSA, PGCPS Parents and President of Community Advisory Council
Lauren Vulnovic, Chairman, Hayatsville Elementary School PTA
Timothy Mayor, Chairman, Mount Rainier Elementary PTO
Kamka Harris, President, Thomas S. Stone Elementary PTO
Magali Salas, PGCPS Grandday and School Lawyer
Strong school for Peter Daniel, MD Advocate and PGCPS Parents
Jessica Daniel, PGCPS Parents
Laura Pilsbury, Co-Villing President, Hayatsville Elementary School PTA
Emily Robins, Co-Villing President, Hayatsville Elementary School PTA
Molly McLaren, PGCPS Parents and Former President, University Park Elementary School PTA
Sarah Christophanson, PGCPS Parents and East Thomas S. Stone Elementary PTO President and former Hayatsville Middle School PTSO President
Daniel broader, PGCPS Advocate
Christine Blacker, PGCPS Parents
Debbie Van Camp, PGCPS Parents and Former Vice President, Hayatsville Elementary School PTA
Kate Wondralich, PGCPS Parents
Joseph Jakuta, PGCPS Parents
Theresa Smith, PGCPS Parents and Vice President of Community Advisory Council
Rachell Cain, PGCPS Parents
Amy Olivo, PGCPS Parents and Former Gladis Noon Spelman PTA President
Nicole de la Torre, Co-Secretary, Mount Rainier Elementary PTO
Lee Hicks, Co-Secretary, Mount Rainier Elementary PTO
Christie Regehnhart, PGCPS Parents
Christon Wars, PGCPS Parents and Former Vice President, Hayatsville Elementary School PTA
Matthew Jeled, PGCPS Parents
Carter Ross, PGCPS Parents and PGCPS Parents and Community Advisory Council Recording Secretary
Marianella Youhouse, PGCPS Parents and Former Secretary, HYATTSVILLE Primary School PTA
Dr. Emeron Lajoi, PGCPS Parents
Matt Weber, PGCPS Parents
Rajni Sood Laurent, PGCPS Parents and Former Vice President, Mount Rainier Elementary PTO
Danny Laurent, PGCPS Parents
Christine Bacraft, PGCPS Parents
Rebecca Lee, PGCPS Parents
NAT Gronendic, PGCPS Parents
Ted Baker, PGCPS Parents
Kelly Clendanin, PGCPS Teacher and PGCPS Parents
Amy Mulback, PGCPS Parents
Bob Lamb, PGCPS Parents
Catarina Correia, PGCPS Parents and Former President, HYATTSVILLE Middle School PTSO
Heather Creek, PGCPS Parents
Christine Soto, PGCPS Parents
Emily Dwarkin, PGCPS Parents
Jake Dwarkin, PGCPS Parents
Cat School, PGCPS Parents and Former Treasurer, Hayatsville Elementary School PTA
Christina Adams, PGCPS Parents and Former Secretary, Mount Rainier Elementary PTO
Sarah Weber, PGCPS Parents
Elison Linus-Bentley, PGCPS Parents and Former Secretary, Mount Rainier Elementary PTO
Nat Washington, PGCPS Parents
Nicole Claim, PGCPS Parents and Former Secretary, Mount Rainier Elementary PTO
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